Pentagon to Request $179 Billion in Modernization for FY2013

The U.S. Defense Department on Feb. 13 will ask
Congress to approve a fiscal 2013 budget request
that includes $47.6 billion to buy new fighters jets,
tankers, helicopters and cargo planes, according to
the document obtained by Defense News. That money for aviation is part of an overall
modernization request that includes $179 billion to
buy and develop aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles
and satellites. The modernization portion of the budget includes
procurement â€” $109 billion â€” and research and
development (R&D) â€” $69.7 billion. The total is $25
billion less than the Pentagon asked lawmakers to
approve for modernization in 2012. Thatâ€™s a decline
of 12 percent. The $179 billion includes funds requested in DoDâ€™s
base and overseas contingency operations budget.
The funds are only a portion of the Pentagonâ€™s
entire 2013 budget. In all, DoDâ€™s 2013 base budget
request totals $525 billion. Another $88 billion will
be requested for overseas contingency operations in Afghanistan. DoD also will send a proposal to lawmakers on Feb.
13 that details $259 billion in cuts to planned
spending over the next five years. The cuts are part
of $487 billion that the Pentagon plans to trim from
its accounts over the next decade as mandated by
the Budget Control Act, which was signed into law in August 2011. The largest request in the modernization budget, $
9.2 billion, is for 29 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint
Strike Fighters â€” 19 for the Air Force and 10 for the
Navy. As for other programs, DoD will ask Congress to
approve $1.9 billion for 43 General Atomics
Predator and Reaper drones. The budget request includes $1.2 billion for six
Northrop Grumman RQ-4 surveillance drones.
Three will be for the Navy and another three for
NATO. It also includes $835 million for seven Lockheed
Martin HC/MC-130J aircraft. The request includes 21
Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft: 17 for
the Marine Corps and four for the Air Force. As for helicopters, the budget request includes $1.1
billion for Boeing Apache helicopters. That money
would go toward remanufacturing aircraft and 10
new builds. The Army is requesting $1.4 billion for 44 Boeing
CH-47 Chinooks, $1.3 billion for 59 Sikorsky Black
Hawks and $272 million for 34 EADS Light Utility
Helicopters. The Air Force is requesting $1.8 billion for its
Boeing KC-46A aerial refueling tanker program.
The air service is also asking for $808 million for
Lockheed F-22A fighter modernization. The Navy is requesting $1.2 billion for five Northrop
Grumman E-2D Hawkeyes, $2.2 billion for 26
Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and $1.1 billion
for 12 Boeing EA-18 Growler jamming aircraft. The Pentagon is requesting $10.9 billion for
ground systems. Specifically, the Army is requesting $116.8 million
for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle technology
development. It has also requested $377.4 million
for 1,471 Oshkosh Family of Medium Tactical
Vehicles and $332.3 million for General Dynamics
Strykers. DoD is asking lawmakers to approve $9.7 billion for
ballistic-missile defense programs. The request
continues integration into Navy ships. In addition the budget request includes $1.3 billion
to complete manufacturing and development of 24
Raytheon SM-3 Block IB interceptors and
procurement of 29 SM-3 Block 1B missiles. The request also includes $777.7 million for
Lockheedâ€™s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
program, and $763 million for 84 Patriot PAC-3
interceptors. Another $401 million is includes for
the Medium Extended Air Defense System. Finally, $903 million is for the Boeing Ground-Based
Midcourse Defense system. In the weapons portfolio, DoD is requesting $10.2
billion for missiles and munitions. The request includes $423 million for 180
Raytheon Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air
Missiles, $200 million for 314 Raytheon AIM-9X
missiles, $248 million for 157 Lockheed Joint Air-
to-Surface Standoff Missiles, $156 million for 4,678
Boeing Joint Direct Attack Munitions, $133 million for 280 Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapons and $
216 million for the Small Diameter Bomb program. Beyond that, the Army has requested $382 million
for the Lockheed Guided Multiple Launch Rocket
System, while the Navy has requested $320 million
for 196 Raytheon Tomahawk cruise missiles and $
1.5 billion for the Lockheed Trident II Ballistic
Missile program. The Pentagon is requesting $22.6 billion for
shipbuilding programs. The request includes $3.5 billion for two Arleigh
Burke-class destroyers, $2.2 billion for four Littoral
Combat Ships, $966 million for the Navyâ€™s CVN 21
carrier replacement program and $191 million for
one Austal Joint High Speed Vessel. The Navy request also includes $4.3 billion for two
Virginia-class submarines and $1.6 billion to
overhaul the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The Pentagonâ€™s budget request includes $8 billion
for space programs. This includes $786 million for
the Lockheed Advanced Extremely High Frequency
satellite, $1.7 billion for four United Launch Alliance
Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles, $1.3 billion
for two new Lockheed GPS III satellites and $950 million for the Lockheed Space Based Infrared
System program.

ZzZ. What we take 7 years to spend on our entire military, they spend on modernization in one year alone.

Only monkeys will want to fight them. The sane people will hide.

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The might of US is too much for anyone who want to take it on head-to-head...but there are some monkeys in Afghanistan who are giving hard time to US for the last 10 years in a hide-n-seek war...... and this one might be called as Vietnam-II.

Seems that in that list priority have USAF and US Navy, the only two big programs of US Army/USMC are JLTV and new heavier armored version of Stryker FoV. Seems that GCV and M1 tanks modernization programs will start with bigger kick in 2014 as per 2012 modernization program. But we should wait for the final version of 2013 program, it can change several times before approval.